WORDSWORTH

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• WORDSWORTH (noun)
  The noun WORDSWORTH has 1 sense:

1. a romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (1770-1850)

  Familiarity information: WORDSWORTH used as a noun is very rare.

• WORDSWORTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (1770-1850)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

William Wordsworth; Wordsworth

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Holonyms ("Wordsworth" is a member of...):

lake poets (English poets at the beginning of the 19th century who lived in the Lake District and were inspired by it)

Derivation:

Wordsworthian (in the manner of William Wordsworth)

 Context examples 

Robin Wordsworth, assistant professor of environmental science and engineering, said: "Early Mars is unique in the sense that it's the one planetary environment, outside Earth, where we can say with confidence that there were at least episodic periods where life could have flourished.

(Methane Gas May Have Caused Greenhouse Effect on Young Mars, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)